Aston Martin becomes the eleventh and final team on the 2026 Formula 1 grid to present their livery for the upcoming new season.
As in tradition, the British Racing Green is on the AMR26 with the car powered by Honda. This is the first racing car to be led by Adrian Newey, who is also the new team principal.
The Silverstone squad has retained its British Racing Green colour scheme using a matte finish, at an event at the Ithra cultural centre in Dhahran, near Dammam.
In a powertrain partnership, the AMR26 carries Honda’s new logotype. Title sponsor Aramco, which has developed the team’s fuels for the new season, commands the majority of advertising space.
Under the supervision of Newey, who has assumed the team principal role at Aston Martin, the car ran for the first time across the final two days of the Barcelona shakedown.
The reveal of the AMR26, as it left the garage for the first time at the shakedown, gathered much interest – specifically with many of its aerodynamic solutions and placement of its suspension.
It also makes use of additional fins around the halo and the central air intake, plus inlets on the sidepods, which caught the attention when the car was first seen.
While the Newey-led design has proven to be intriguing, the team’s fortunes will also rely on the Honda powertrain as the famous car brand makes its full return, having officially departed Formula 1 after the 2021 season, but remained in place to develop and maintain the power units for the two Red Bull-owned teams through its HRC subsidiary.
While Honda’s Formula 1 project leader Tetsushi Kakuda had earlier stated that “the electrification side is progressing as planned,” he added that it was “not necessarily the case for the internal combustion engine”.
Hopefully the reliability of this Honda-powered car will be a non-issue and it will be fascinating how competitive this car will be considering it is designed by the legendary Adrian Newey.
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Fernando Alonso has described getting hold of an Adrian Newey-designed F1 car for the first time in his career as a “very proud moment”, with the Honda-powered Aston Martin AMR26 being officially presented to the world.
Alonso, team mate Lance Stroll and Newey headed to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on Monday for a special livery launch presentation live from Ithra (the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture), marking the start of Aston Martin’s 2026 campaign.
After an initial run-out at the Barcelona Shakedown, where he smiled that the legendary F1 designer “is always teaching us something”, two-time World Champion Alonso took a moment to reflect on what it means to team up with Newey.
“A very proud moment, for sure,” said Alonso, with Newey’s cars winning 14 Drivers’ and 12 Teams’ titles over the years. “I’ve been racing against Adrian for the whole of my career, and now, finally, I can drive one of his cars.
“I think [it’s] a huge challenge this year with the new set of regulations, and being a works team, having [power unit partner] Honda in our side, and [fuel partner] Aramco, with the challenge that the sustainable fuels have been for the 2026 regulations.
“So yeah, I’m very proud to be part of this family and this organisation, and I’m looking forward to succeeding together.”
With that aforementioned Honda partnership, and a new state-of-the-art headquarters at Silverstone, the Spaniard added: “I feel this is a very important moment for the team. It’s the very first time we are a works team, and we have all the new pieces coming together.
“I think it’s going to be [a] very interesting [year], because it’s a season that… I mean, it always matters where you start in Australia, but I feel the second part of the season is going to be even more important than the first half, if you understand your weakness in the car, if you identify early enough that you can work on those [issues].
“I think that’s why the Bahrain test and the first couple of races will dictate a little bit the path for the rest of the season, so we are very, very focused on development of the car. I think, as a driver, it gives you the feeling that you will play an important part through the season.”
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